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                                Welcome to my Hallowed Page.

 

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"Understandably, writing philosophy in the form of poetry is unlikely to be recognised as either philosophy or poetry."

                        ~ Chengde Chen ~

 

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"Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool.
But you yourself may serve to show it,
Every fool is not a poet"

                   ~ Alexander Pope ~ 

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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

                   ~ Socrates ~ 

 

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Two loves I have of comfort and despair,
Which like two spirits do suggest me still:
The better angel is a man right fair,
The worser spirit a woman coloured ill.
To win me soon to hell, my female evil,
Tempteth my better angel from my side,
And would corrupt my saint to be a devil,
Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
And whether that my angel be turned fiend,
Suspect I may, yet not directly tell;
But being both from me, both to each friend,
I guess one angel in another's hell:
Yet this shall I ne'er know, but live in doubt,
Till my bad angel fire my good one out.

                                        ~Shakespeare ~ 

 

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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. ~ George Carlin ~  

 

 

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ~ Abraham Lincoln ~

 

 

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. ~ H. L. Mencken ~

 

 

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ~ Mark Twain ~

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Some of my quotes:

 

~When I am are sure the world revolves around me ....but can't remember why.... it is befitting of a clown with no circus that I feel just like him.

~Without humor to explain human nature it would be an uninteresting race of people that the greatest of all comics Himself created.

~I have big shoulders........... but they ain't for cryin on!

 

~ I like to keep a handful of friends, so that I have at least 4 or 5 people I know I CAN'T count on.

 

~I am becoming quite an admirer of my own quotes... I am sure that it is the humblest way I know how to tell myself I am smart.

 

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Please stay awhile. I promise I won't keep you long..... I'll keep you   forever .  

      " Dead Skin Mask " Seasons in the Abyss , Slayer~

 

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An excerpt from Phaedo , by Plato
Socrates:
" And when they consider all this, must not true poets make a reflection, of which they will speak to one another in such words as these: We have found, they will say, a path of speculation which seems to bring us and the argument to the conclusion that while we are in the body, and while the soul is mingled with this mass of evil, our desire will not be satisfied, and our desire is of the truth. For the body is a source of endless trouble to us by reason of the mere requirement of food; and also is liable to diseases which overtake and impede us in the search after truth: and by filling us so full of loves, and lusts, and fears, and fancies, and idols, and every sort of folly, prevents our ever having, as people say, so much as a thought. For whence come wars, and fightings, and factions? whence but from the body and the lusts of the body? For wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the sake and in the service of the body; and in consequence of all these things the time which ought to be given to philosophy (or Poetry) is lost. Moreover, if there is time and an inclination toward philosophy/poetry, yet the body introduces a turmoil and confusion and fear into the course of speculation, and hinders us from seeing the truth: and all experience shows that if we would have pure knowledge of anything we must be quit of the body , and the soul in herself must behold all things in themselves : then I suppose that we shall attain that which we desire, and of which we say that we are lovers, and that is absolute wisdom, not while we live, but after death , as the argument shows; for if while in company with the body the soul cannot have pure knowledge , one of two things seems to follow-either knowledge is not to be attained at all, or, if at all, after death. For then, and not till then, the soul will be in herself alone and without the body . In this present life, I reckon that we make the nearest approach to knowledge when we have the least possible concern or interest in the body, and are not saturated with the bodily nature, but remain pure until the hour when God himself is pleased to release us. And then the foolishness of the body will be cleared away and we shall be pure and hold converse with other pure souls, and know of ourselves the clear light everywhere; and this is surely the light of truth. For no impure thing is allowed to approach the pure."
  ~ Plato ~, (Phaedo)
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Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it. ~ Mark Twain ~   

 

 

 

"Anything worth doing is worth OVERdoing."
                                  ~ Mick Jagger

                         
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" As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know."
                                ~Donald H. Rumsfeld ~

 

 

Introduction to Poetry (Dont have to understand)
I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light
like a color slide or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem’s room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author’s name on the shore.
But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means. 
                                                              ~Billy Collins ~

 

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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. ~ Sir Francis Bacon ~

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